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The compleat gamester; 1710

by: Charles Cotton (1630-1687)

Publication date: 1710

Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Topics: National Sporting Library & Museum, games, rules, gambling, early works

Collection: f-ambrose-clark-rare-book-room; additional_collections

Language: English

Item Size: 259.8M

The compleat gamester (1710) by Charles Cotton

Sub Title: or instructions how to play at all manner of usual and most gentile games, either on cards, dice, billiards, trucks, bowls, or chess; also the art and mysteries of riding, racing, archery, and cock-fighting, to which is added the game at basset; with a discourse of gaming in general, the description of a gaming ordinary and the character of a gamester, with a song on the game at Piquet; all regulated by the most experienc'd masters

Published in London by Charles Brome

Notes:

184 pages : frontispiece ; 17 cm.

Brown leather binding with decorative leather insets in the cover. Tan leather spine with four raised bands and gilt title

Table of Contents: Of gaming in general; or an ordinary described -- Principal games at cards -- Games within the tables -- Games without the tables -- Wether the great horse, or any orther.

National Sporting Library & Museum

Middleburg, VA

From the John H. and Martha Daniels Collection

F. Ambrose Clark Rare Book Room

Call #: DAN E 06 .C588 1710

Original held by the National Sporting Library & Museum. This resource is in the public domain and may be used without restriction, however, attribution is customary and requested.